Hannah Bloch-Wehba

Biography

Hannah Bloch-Wehba is a legal scholar and expert on law and technology. Her scholarship focuses on how technological change reshapes public governance, with consequences for civil liberties, transparency, and accountability. Her articles on these topics have twice been selected through anonymous peer review for the Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, and have appeared or are forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, California Law Review, BYU Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Fordham Law Review, and many other journals.

Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, Bloch-Wehba taught at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She is also an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, an Affiliated Scholar at NYU School of Law’s Policing Project, and a Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology. In 2024–2025, she was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Bloch-Wehba is a graduate of NYU School of Law, where she was an Institute for International Law & Justice/Law and Security Scholar, and of the University of Texas at Austin. From 2016–2018, she was a supervising attorney in Yale Law School’s Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, a law student clinic dedicated to increasing government transparency, defending the essential work of news gatherers, and protecting freedom of expression by providing pro bono legal services, pursuing impact litigation and developing policy initiatives. Previously, Bloch-Wehba was the inaugural Stanton Foundation National Security–Free Press Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and worked as a litigation associate at Baker Botts LLP.